Word: hubertism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HUBERT ("Horatio") HUMPHREY a.k.a. HHH, pinch-hitting veteran: The 'old man' of the club; in his fourth major league season; long ball threat although has never come through in the clutch; once on bases loves to run, although his legs went three seasons ago; once described as "deceptively slow;" could appear in the line-up at any time...
...that prospect brings a groan from voters who are tired of windy old Hubert, it's surely understandable. Even by 1968, Humphrey seemed an exhausted, overexposed candidate, a veritable Swiss cheese of political wounds. John Kennedy had riddled him through and through in the 1960 Democratic primaries, and Lyndon Johnson had mauled him for four years as Vice President. He had become an outcast to youth and liberals, two of his natural constituencies. He remembers people spitting on him and his wife during the 1968 campaign...
...home is finished. Our nine grandchildren are close by, we're finally coming out of our money problems. Hubert has never been happier. On Christmas Day one of the kids said to me, 'Dad is much calmer. He listens better.' " Muriel Humphrey has changed...
...thought of presidential primaries unsettles her. "Never again," she says. "I've had enough. I remember sitting alone in some Ramada Inn one night in 1972 waiting for Hubert. It was my birthday. He couldn't make it, never got there, and I just started to cry." Of course, if Humphrey is nominated, she will campaign with him as she has for 33 years. But she mostly wishes it would go away. "I go back and forth. He'd make a good President. He's such a decent man. Honestly, we don't know...
...drama in his voice. "The first one is that I'm dying of throat cancer." He clutches his neck. "The second one is that you're dying." "And the third is that you and I are getting a divorce." He stops for a moment. Then Muriel and Hubert Humphrey, the shrewd old family doctor who knows a bad diagnosis when he hears one, grin at each other...